/stsg/ - Starsector General

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>it's already dead

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>still no crack for the latest version in OP
Anyone wonder why it's dead?

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>>180723654
>hownew.ru

>ded in 4 posts
New record lads

>>180725694

might be time to do a thread on /v/ or something

>>180722915
Could Billy defeat the Ophiucus?

help i can't stop giving my destroyer designs double medium missile mounts

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i knew that pirate fits are usually pretty bad, but this one takes the cake

>>180726959
That's fine as long as it doesn't have a bunch of other weaps

>>180729327

i'm looking at 2 small hybrid, 2 med synergy and 2 small synergy on a low-OP ship with a weak generator

i really ought to turn the small syns into energy mounts but doing so would kill a really fun fit that puts annihilators racks in them

i wish alex would nerf sabots

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Chinese mods have the best designs.

Enjoy your second hand low-tech junk.

>>180730140

implying that design isn't japanese as fuck

Are capitals even optimal

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Presented without comment.

>>180731156

watched without comprehension. replied to without thought.

Frigates should only exist as LPC's that go in special Frigate slots that increase deployment/maintenance cost, not costing OP

Thoughts?

>>180731713

sperg

>>180731156
>they don't launch the engines like torpedos which then explode
I give it a 6/10, mildly disappointed

>>180728387
Explain why you think that is bad.

>>180731847

because it fits two hammers and a single ion cannon in one energy and four universal medium mounts.

>>180731156
neat

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>>180732085
>medium

*small

oh wait this thing actually loses two entire mounts in the (P) version, never mind then

>>180732264

that ship is doing a goatse

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>>180732578
needs a more pronounced buttocks

>>180731845
They are bombs though.

>>180732881

can't really pronounce your buttocks more than the goatman

>>180722915
The pirate copy RNG warning is real?

>>180733710
no

>>180733710

yes

>>180733710
Maybe

>>180734817
>>180733952
>>180733816
pls

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>>180735141

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i don't think i'm winning this one

>>180735760
is this gonna be a new prv ship?

>>180735760
>hey everyone else is making thin ships, lets make one exactly the opposite!
>With 2 light needlers!
>Time to go fight dominators!

>>180736772

yeah, i finally found a hull shape i was happy with for that blockade runner

>>180735760
>phase courier

u wut m8

>>180737217

for when your shipment of very legal cloned organs just has to pass customs.

>>180737497
or to dodge the right wing militia's who are trying to prevent you from delivering your load of rapefugees

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7.2 bump

>>180740869
>tfw no 435 OP onslaught

how do I git gud. I have no monies fo rsupplies i ded

>>180740869
5 fucking flak cannons
1100 flux dissipation but no shield bypass

Why are onslaught fits so friggin terrible

The 3 large slot arcs don't even overlap!

>>180741284

it's got five large weapons and three of them overlap

>>180741214
keep xtra supply next time around

>>180741391
rofl the thermal pulse cannon is terrible, its also fixed so only against the biggest capitals will both streams of shots hit

250 fucking dps

>>180740869
What mod is that fat green tsunderer?

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>>180741607

>>180741607

lol k

>>180741630

no idea, that ss is over a year old

>>180741630
its from the IBB bounty i think

i miss crew experience

>>180741643
>>180741709
The onslaught is terrible
Not much else to say there
It's tanky, but its terrible weapon arcs + terrible flux dissipation cripple it.

You can always do so much better for 40 deployment points.

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>>180732881
>ISS Squatting Slav

>>180741630
ship/weapon pack

Is expanded magazines on an Onslaught a good idea?

>>180743873

nah, by the time you've gone through the standard mags you're usually pretty fluxed out anyway

>>180741960
saying TPC is terrible is downright retarded m8

>>180730140
Too bad that mod won't see .8

>>180745203

Its only ok because its free and doesn't use too much flux

>>180745203

an energy weapon with 125% flux efficiency? and 1250 burst DPS? feh i say.

>>180741106
I don't think even with the buffs to ship OP across the board following the .8 nerf to skills will you get an Onslaught that has 435 OP now

>>180745487

7.2 was +30% from skills, now in 8.1 we're at +10% base and +10% from ordinance design for 121% total

the difference is not huge but i sure miss that extra hullmod

>>180745848
+10% base

give or take a bit, based on rounding and whatnot

>>180745848
I still don't see what was wrong with +30% other than people complaining the game was too easy

>>180746972
>I don't see why I need to make tradeoffs and can't put all the best weapons in every slot + all the subsystems I want + max flux
hjmmm

>>180747707
But I can still do that even now. If that was the objective all ships should have reduced OP by about 50 to 70% from their current amount.

>>180747707
Do you think you're playing Red or something? How are you going to add in all the subsystems and weapons and still max flux on .72's extra thirty percent alone?

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>complete bounty
>earn 2 skill points
>loose a light carrier
>earned 3 skill points in previous bounty
>had half the fleet down to 50% hull and was a hell of micro the fight

May I've been doing bounties too high level for me or is it normal to earn 1-3 points after a bounty?

Also I need more escorts for what will be my replace carrier (looking to buy one plus another cruiser or destroyer, as money allows), what would be better Lasher or another Wolf for my already existing 2 wolfpack?

I think I've been disregarding frigates in favour of destroyers/cruisers.

And where can I look up what makes a ship close support/assault/attack etc?

>>180749259
post fleet

>>180749259
exp curve is exponential. It's easy to level all the way up to 30s, then it starts to slow down. If you mod in extra levels to like 150 or something the slow down is dramatically increased even by the time you get past 50.

Disregarding frigates is fine, you can run an end game fleet without frigates and enemy frigates just feed themselves to your destroyers and cruisers anyways.

Ship roles depend on how you use them.

>>180749259
> And where can I look up what makes a ship close support/assault/attack etc?
Autofit tab in refit screen.

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>>180749259
>And where can I look up what makes a ship close support/assault/attack etc?

those are just the names of the fits, you can write whatever you want in that field

a cruiser with a fit named "Assault" is probably built to get in close though while a "Support Frigate" is likely loaded with stuff like taclasers and anti-fighter SRMs

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>>180749259
Looking for a Mora-class carrier to replace in the Condor-class light carrier that I lost.

I may need another Dram/Mule depending on how many ships I buy.

Also almost all the D ships have degraded engines, when is a good time to replace your D ships? or is viable to run a mainly D centered fleet?

>>180749860
>or is viable to run a mainly D centered fleet?

yeah sure. cheap maintenance, little reason to care about losses.

>>180749860
>Also almost all the D ships have degraded engines, when is a good time to replace your D ships? or is viable to run a mainly D centered fleet?
You can run a D fleet for as long as you want. There's no real reason to replace the ships unless you want to upgrade, but the game is so easy that you can intentionally handicap yourself and still get away with it as long you're not going after impossible bounties. Survey missions are better for cash anyways.

>>180749860

level your officers. click their portraits.

its easy to forget. but a good officer is one hell of a multiplier.

Is Damper Field officially worthless now?

>>180751578

it's officially only moderately overpowered

or so i've been told anyway, i never used the damn thing in the first place

>>180730140
Does not fit the setting, 2/10

>>180752347

ricing your ride is extremely post-apoc

>>180752446
>tfw no ricer faction with built-in SO ships

>>180752957
>what is the ludds

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So this is what the inside of a wolf looks like?

>>180723654
Go find the latest crack on your sketchy .ru sites
>>180723753
No longer works as easily, gg Alex
>>180735141
Maybe, maybe not. I can still have solid runs

>>180754140
Yawn, now do a paragon

>>180723654
RC8 is cracked
Came out like 2 weeks ago

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>detailing ship
>change layer color
>PS creates a dozen browser windows and crashes

fucking adobe

>>180754140

whenever i see this i think that it probably looks much more interesting than it is

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>>180750118
>level your officers. click their portraits.

I completely forgot about that.

Thanks Anon.

>>180749502
>Disregarding frigates is fine, you can run an end game fleet without frigates and enemy frigates just feed themselves to your destroyers and cruisers anyways.

Good to know, I don't like having so many ships eating up my CP when in combat.

>>180749996
>>180750068

Then I'll guess I just keep recovering ships without degraded engines unless I can find the ships I want for my fleet.

Although at this point I have the skill that supposedly halves the D modifiers.

>>180745442
dont forget the absolutely massive range

sure, you can't always hit a destroyer with both TPCs, but you will be able to do serious damage to anything that can't hit you back with zero commitment

the TPCs are the main reason the onslaught is any good at all, the second reason being the insane hull and the 4 missile turrets (annihilator pods/typhoon reapers are incredible against caps and cruisers)

the two side larges would be OP if they overlapped. on a player onslaught i downgrade them to mediums, on an AI onslaught i fit devastators

>>180756172
Personally, I keep a few frigates and light carriers around late game to pick off runners after the main combat is finished.

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Found a cheap Mora, what fighters/bombers are the best vanilla ones?

I want that Mora to screen my ships from enemy fighters and harass fast frigates.

>>180758437

you probably want talons for that

>>180758437
Yeah, talons for that would be good. And warthogs would be good for most other shit

what are the annihilator rocket bombers called? khopesh? use those.

>>180763630
Yeah, the rocket bombers are the khopesh

>went to scan probe
>fuel left only takes me to hostile territory
fucking hegemony comission.

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Are commissions worth it?

And if so what's the general strategy when commissioned?

>>180766418
size 7 military markets are hella nice
plus it gives u a lotta free money I think, unless that was a mod.

>>180766418

i think so, but it does get you a lot of enemies

>>180766535

the payment is vanilla

>>180765384
>found a derilict tanker with 1000 fuel in it
thanks rng

>>180758415
Two or three fighter wings does the job and saves on frigates which the AI can suicide ram capitals and cruisers with because their AI can get retarded.

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>Salvage fleet turns pirate and attacks me
>My fleet overpowered theirs so hard I wiped them out before my shittiest frigate even began dropping CR
Why would they do such a thing?

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How is the Mimir's Nidhoggr Lance supposed to work? I shot it right at this Onslaught while it was using its Burn Drive and it went straight through the fucking thing.

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Same Anon as >>180749860

When would be a good moment to start using mods?

This is my first campaign and is starting to get boring, I'm going to commission for the Hegemony and buy some better and bigger ships as my money supplies/fuel allows. I have all the Industry skills, and that skill that reduces 25% fleet fuel usage.

I hope that doing this will make things more interesting that waiting for a bounty that I can do.

>>180771794
use em right away
I think Industry skills are a waste, you end up with ample money pretty quick

i've been going combat first lately, the +150 armor calc skill makes a real difference when a destroyer is half your fleet

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>>180772612
>use em right away

So what mods are /stsg/ approved?

>>180773246

all

none

>>180773246
the asanagi mod

>>180773246
No mods are approved if you go by /stsg/ standards. The only way to play E T H I C A L L Y is to play Vanilla.

>tfw 1.0.1 steam version

>>180773246
Audio Plus
Autosave
Combat Chatter
Common Radar
Console Commands
DynaSector
Nexerelin
Save Transfer
Ship/Weapon Pack
Simulator Overhaul
Steiner Foundation
Underworld
Upgraded Rotary Weapons
Version Checker
Blackrock Drive Yards
Diable Avionics
Interstellar Imperium
The Knights Templar
Outer Rim Alliance
Scy Nation
Shadowyards Reconstruction Authority

>>180776148
Maybe by the time I'm retired.

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>>180776148
>1.0.1 steam version
>16GB RAM minimum requirement

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Noob here, why does bounties scale so fast? They force me to do other activities to recover/buy more ships every few bounties.

Unless it is intended to not depend on bounties as viable main activity.

So random sector massively improves performance by not having so many useless markets?

>>180780353
If the bounties are running away from you rather than at you, your fleet is too expensive to be profitable.

>>180780353
All I can recommend is increasing the max amount of bounties shown just to see if RNG gives you a low one.

>>180754140
who made this? or it's from a game?

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>>180780353
Bounties were specifically changed to do that in the latest patch. I used to prefer doing them over surveys to make money, but now I don't even fucking bother and just do trade missions instead.

>>180781997
It is from someone importing SS ship sprites into WTF

Does Shadowyards have any kind of gameplay niche? I don't know if I've just spoiled by other faction mods, but their ships seem slightly weak.

>>180784963
Supposedly their ships vent/ dissipate flux faster at higher levels

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>>180782571
>Start game
>Lowest bounty is 80k

>>180785758
That's normal in some cases. I've had several games now where 80ks are default start. You need to mod bounty frequency to get a better initial range as far as I know

>>180785758
It's probably some Pather shits as well.

>>180784963

CEPCs on errything

they're pretty nice guns

Which fucking mod has this unreadable grey color
Is that DME
jesus christ

>>180788371

DME are a fairly clear white. your monitor's fucked.

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>Factions for some reason go to war with 80% of the sector all the time
>Bounties suddenly chopped by 3/4 because everyone's hostile and still taking up the fucking bounty slots
>If I go factionless I'm stuck without military markets
>If I go jew I get fucked over by tariffs or by the "we found nothing on you but fuck you anyways" space cops
Are surveys as boring as I imagine them to be? Just go to some point, press button, receive money?

>Salvaged a cathedral at the start of the game

Time to put this fucker in storage for a little while lol
Needs like 2000 crew

>>180788942
>Are surveys as boring as I imagine them to be? Just go to some point, press button, receive money?
Yep. Sometimes you get some derelicts to fight.

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>>180789038
>Towing a cathedral with a bunch of frigates

>>180789038
It's so slow that you'll probably never end up using it anyways.

>>180782868
And i'm supposed to know what WTF means?

>>180782868
Is WTF any good?

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This thing ruins armor.

>>180794721
t-that's a big ship

>>180795027
U
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>>180794224
Not really, but when done it might be ok.

>>180794065
wayward terran frontier something something, I don't recall the exact name.

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>ECM
why the fuck do i even bother with the damn modules if i'm gonna sit at -20% no matter what?

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>Decide to try DA
>Snatch a storm in the black market early
>No idea what I'm doing, slap triple frost wankers on it
>It kills absolutely everything, can do up to 200k bounties with just 2 calms and a gust
>Already gotten past the 1M credit mark without buying anything else
Just how powerful are these things? Do they have energy damage?

>>180797118
>Buy shitty frigates
>Refit them with nothing but ECM module
>Throw them at one corner of the map and forget about them
Problem solved.

>>180797118
If you're trying to win the ECM war, every single ship needs to have the module on and you have to max out the skill. Otherwise you will lose more often than not against high tech fleets.

>>180797385
He would need 27 frigates to make up the difference since each frigate only adds 1%. That's already around 130 supply worth in deployment. Not worth it.

>>180797710
Correct me if I'm wrong, but ships innately grant an ECM percentage while the ECM package adds on top of it, and it adds 2% to frigates on top of what I assume is 1%, so he'd only need 9 to compensate. This'd be 18 supply if he's lucky enough to get a ton of pisspoor shuttles. This is pure theorycrafting at this point but if he goes for the industry skills and slaps reinforced bulkheads on those shuttles he might even recover them for dmods assuming they get destroyed, maybe even lowering the deployment to 1. Assuming no further CR loss in the engagement obviously.

>>180798406
Infeasible. The fuel costs alone would be horrendous.

>>180798406
It doesn't work like that as far as I know, otherwise the skill would probably have been nerfed for players already since people complain that ECM already makes the game too easy

>>180798406
>Assuming no further CR loss in the engagement obviously.
They will always lose CR, they're just more likely to die if they have D mods stacked.

>>180798749
ECM skill stacks with the ECM module.

>>180799049
Well shit, guess that's going to have to get nerfed.

>>180799178
It's not as bad as it sounds? Honestly it's a waste to spam ships just to fight ECM, because the range deficit doesn't actually harm you unless you're severely outclassed. The AI tosses the advantage away by throwing their ships away without smart positioning.

That said it would be pretty easy to just make it so that frigates contribute 0 to ECM, or have it so that ECM module costs all of a frigate's OP or doubles its maintenance or whatever.

>>180799178
Well thing is ECM modules cost a fair bit of OP, so having dedicated ECM ships is at a detriment to combat capability, which reduces your advantage, which is what you're trying to gain in the first place.
So its kinda redundant.

>>180799912
The idea is that if your ships have nothing but ECM, they don't need to part of the fight and don't factor into combat capability. If each frigate is 2 cost and you arm them with nothing but an ECM mod and get 3% alongside the skill, you'd only need 9 to hit the max 25%, and that would only cost 18, which is about the size of a one Light Cruiser.

You could double that and get around 54%, and you'd basically be fielding 2 Light Cruisers, but you'd get enough ECM to block out a fleet.

>>180798406
>only need 9 to compensate
You do realize that there's a cap to the fleet size and deployment supply, right?

>>180800968
You can mod both of those in simple tweaks, so that's not a factor in this.

>>180800968
Based on what anon is theorycrafting neither of those would make much of a difference. Against a fleet of low tech, 9 ships is enough to hit the maximum cap, but your ship deployment limit is 30 ships normally, and if the group of 9 only costs 18 total due to stacked D mods, then that's not a lot at all.

Even with just 10 ships you can normally take a battle outnumbered two to one or three to one depending on your loadouts. If you set aside 5 ship slots for logistics, that's still 16 ships you can field, which is plenty.

>>180801096
being able to edit the config doesn't justify the problem.
using the same logic, you could also say that bounty nerfs are justified because the spawn distance and frequency can be edited, but everyone knows that the bounties have issues.

>>180802481
What actually is the problem? You know you don't need a 9 ship dedicated ECM group right? I run 22 ships (450 supply max) and I'm usually at around 70% ECM, with only 2 dedicated ECM carriers.

I'm beginning to think the aurora is unusable without safety overrides.

>>180803431
SO is the hull mod for cool dudes slowpokes get out

I'm starting to think that bounties are broken.

I barely have 2 cruisers and I already have bounties with Onslaught as flag ship.

>>180804017
How big are the fleets accompanying them

>>180768926
Late, but better late than never
Resident Mimir shill here, the Nidhoggr has two uses:
>against shields
It deals a massive amount of base damage and often overloads weaker shields/reactors in a single shot, and often does about a third worth of hard flux against stronger ones. Its massive range makes it an incredibly powerful anti-capital siege gun.
>against armor
It only FEELS useless, but you need to realize that the damage it deals travels along the entire path of the projectile, razing armor along the way. You're not going to notice the damage it deals before the third or so shot against heavily armored ships though, BUT

You can also anally annihilate Onslaughts. Lance them in the engines from behind while they're dumb enough to keep their shield up against the rest of your fleet, causing the Lance projectile to overload it from behind. It's a pretty brutal weapon.

Arm your Mimir with burst weapons and 60 flux vents, you're gonna need those to get the most potential out of the thing. It's extremely elusive, so employ hit and run tactics. Play it like an oversized destroyer against other capitals. Murti CAS Beams are the best for the medium slots, and anything long range to pressure shields with in the large ones.
>besiege shields until they overload
>drift in
>melt ship into slag with explosive burst lasers
Lots of venting in-between though.

>>180807078
I'm still here, thanks. Going from in your face Onslaught tanking to something like that might take a bit to get used to though.

>>180810453
The Mimir's playstyle isn't that easy to learn, but it's very rewarding once you figure out how to make it work. The biggest issue, I find, is figuring out what to fit in the large energy slots.

The role I use the Mimir for (as a player piloted ship) is somewhere between fire support (using mainly long range beams to wipe the floor with light craft) and assault (bursting down anything big and beefy), because the sheer speed this damn thing can move at is perfect for both.

Learn how to manage your flux and vent frequently and you won't need PD (although 2 in the rearmost turrets are fine). Accelerated shields is a huge help for something that practically spam-vents, so consider that. Accelerated Turrets + Tac Lasers (or any equivalent) is amazing against fighters, too.


Oh and never try to tank with your Mimir unless you're already moving backwards and getting ready to hit your system key, otherwise you'll get fucked. Getting overloaded is a death sentence.

>>180810453
>>180810853
I should also add that the Mimir is, from my experience, really bad at fighting red beacons. 25% CR deployment cost is impossible to sustain, even with Automated Repair Unit. You want to use ships that drain less than 15% for that. Continuous fighting is possibly its biggest weakness.

Why am I not seeing IBB ships in my Codex even though I have Nexerelin, Dynasector, and Ship/Weapons pack (among a lot of other things)

>>180811345
Because they aren't listed in the codex at all.

Are IBBs limited in number or does the game just keep generating more of them?

>>180813421
There's something like 25 of them in total.

>>180813421
IBB's are hand crafted bounties and are limited. You will never face the same bounty twice. Also, if you end up facing three different super cap ships then you should be at the end of the IBBs.
Also, if you have Underworld, you should try visiting the Styx system and taking on the named pirates there

>tl;dr been learning to mod and paint, anyone have any input on a no-shields faction, each ship having probably 4-6 modules just to keep it from being way too much and shitting up the performance

My plan is some kind of no-shields faction with armor plates, I don't know the exact theme but it can be whatever, an expeditionary fleet that was separated before the Domain started the widespread use of shields and never got to update their tech, or just straight militant Luddic loonies, etc. etc. etc. whatever.

I've been doing some playtesting with a destroyer I made against vanilla trying to get a good feel for how durable armor plates need to be to put up a fight for awhile against shielded opponents, and I found out that torpedo hits fucking WRECK all of the modules instantly and still bleed damage to the real hull.

So my idea is more or less that they're kind of a damage race faction, you kill them fast with the right weapons, and they kill you fast because they aren't gaining flux from absorbing shield damage so they can shoot for a lot longer.

It works pretty decently with the ship that I've been testing, it's actually a cool little mechanic to be horribly afraid of taking a torpedo hit because it doesn't just hurt like hell, it rips any modules near the area clean off and leave a paper thin hull revealed(for a destroyer sized ship a Reaper actually rips them all off, whereas 2 Atropos hits tear off what they're hitting + splashing directly adjacent modules).

Wall of text aside, I haven't seen any other mods doing a armor-module base defense(SCY has them, but they're just extra defense in addition to the shields, but if there is tell me), and one of the cool things about it is I can make alternate variants by popping a weapon mount module or a module with EMP etc. and it's really noticeable because the ship actually changes shape

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>>180815497
>My plan is some kind of no-shields faction
So how are you going to deal with EMP

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>>180815497
The plates block and absorb EM & EM arcs automatically and they'll have hard-modded Resistant Flux Conduits installed with a little lore tidbit in the description about how they aren't stupid as fuck and insulated their ships against electromagnetic weapons

They're just as immune to EM as shields are if you're hitting the plates.

I've done a lot of playtesting with a prototype ship I assure you I wouldn't bother if it wasn't something interesting

>>180816401
>>180816191

I meant to add that I was considering a paint scheme similar to that for the Hegemony ships I was going to use if I decided to do some low tech Hegemony-branch

I should also specify the armor plate modules aren't hullmodded with Resistant Flux Conduits, the actual ships themselves are

>>180816401
Consider giving them a custom small burst flak, with tactically positioned small mounts across the hull. High upfront damage or large aoe, long rearm time, let them really fuck over torpedo volleys.

It won't be a huge deal for the player to deal with that, since pd saturation missiles already exist, but it'll help against AI fleets.


Do you know whether SCY ships carry hullmods over to the armor modules (see: Heavy Armor)? Do you intend for this to be the case in your mod?

I love devastators and heavy machine guns. Do any of the mods add some other nice CQC guns?

>>180816624
Ship/Weapon Pack has plasma flamethrowers.

>>180816568
I don't know if they do, I know that the modules are essentially their own ships as far as the game is concerned so they have their own hullmods, I don't think the main ship transfers its hullmods to modules because something like the Mothership with Vast Bulk wouldn't be functional and like I said before the modules are also separate entities

I'll have to test it with something that's easy to notice, perhaps expanded missiles racks and give a module a single torpedo to see if it shoots twice instead of once

>>180816935
I've tried Heavy Armor on the Nemean Lion and it didn't seem to do much, if anything, but my tests were anything but expansive.
I'm just bringing it up because I feel like it could become a problem. Putting Heavy Armor on something that relies on armor modules is going to fucking suck if they don't get the bonus.

Alright, I've just started this, and I'm enjoying it a fairly decent bit, but I have a few questions and I neither know where to go to ask nor see an OP Pastebin for this sort of shit, so I'm sorry if asking is retarded or something.

If I'm starting out as a combat loadout and going around blowing pirates the fuck out and all that, but Bounties keep appearing, what's a reasonable bounty payout that I can shoot for? I assume difficulty of them scales to payout, so a 90k bounty is a Bad Fucking Idea to take out with a fairly default loadout and only the two ships.

Second, how do you actually... acquire money in reasonably large amounts? I assume bounties, since surverying is kind of interesting but if you go survery it seems like you just get BTFO by the first combat encounter you find because the survey loadout ship is just absolute fucking flying garbage.

How do you actually acquire new ships? I keep recovering pirate ships and other shit, but they're wrecked as fuck, and the tutorial didn't really cover how to make them not-shit. I've been pawning them off to the Hegemony so far, but it's like selling games to Gamestop.

Are there any mods that are just required? Is there anything that's extremely highly recommended? I'm a little hesitant to mod it yet due to being new, and I don't fully trust the whole official-forum community modlist after shit like Rimworld advertising Hardcore SK as a "Totally great modpack there's nothing wrong guys"

>>180817146
You'll need to get a feel for what kind of fleets you can take on, and how big a fleet will be, depending on bounty size. I'd definitely urge you to read the bounty description, since they are pretty useful now.
Also try to chart a useful course that employs a lot of missions along the way to maximize profits. In the mission menu [E] click "All" and hit [W] to open the map. Easy planning.

Commissions and bounties are good, trading can also be pretty lucrative if you git gud and learn your trading routes. I don't think that's fun though so I usually blow up bounties.

When docked at a station and refitting your ship, look to the bottom left, it should say "Restore [G]". This removes any D-mods, but is more expensive than buying a new ship.
Grabbing a faction commission and buying from them directly is the easiest way to obtain good ships fast, but you need high faction standing. You can also hit free ports (Askonia should have one) and buy ships there, but they're much more expensive.

Get Nexelerin, Dynasector, Ship/Weapon Pack and Underworld, all of those make significant changes to how missions and such work.

>>180816624
Diable has their Scatter Cannons and Beam Repeaters.
Shadowyards has the Scatter CEPC and CAS Beam weapons, which are like Phase Lances.

>>180815497
Two things:
- The torpedo damage bleeding through modules has supposedly been fixed in the latest hotfix. You should make sure you are running 0.8.1 RC8

- Flux and shield management is *the* feature that makes the game so rewarding to play. Removing that isn't necessarily an issue but you should probably try to replace the shields with another mechanic (see Templars and Exigency), or at the very least make kick-ass ship systems. Otherwise flying your ships could boil down to get in range and let the guns do their job in autofire, while turning around from time to time.

>>180815497
The problem is that of player agency, you simply cannot remove shields without replacing them with a mechanic that is least vaguely as complex. That is the single hardest thing to do in the Modiverse.

The armor idea is great and all to fight against, but ultimately playing as won't be that interesting. The gameplay essentially boiling down to "keep shooting until you die, rotating to face armor to the enemy". That is highly simplistic compared to shields, and the entire flux (heat) mechanic, where offense and defense are linked naturally.

>>180817875
What about a form of accelerated ammo feeder/high energy focus?
Press right click, weapons do much more damage but the flux efficiency gets tanked, also small chance of short lived weapon malfunctions as long as the system is active.
Lorewise they are overclocking the weapon systems well past their safety threshold, would work wonderfully for Path stuff

>>180818084
I would recommend attacking the player agency problem, as right click defense systems that use the flux mechanic, combined with whatever type of F key system you want.

>>180818084
That is probably too much of an automatic switch on in range than meaningful decision.

How about an armor regeneration system that also doubles the damage taken to bare hull and halve the range/deactivates the weapons? That would require careful usage to avoid receiving a big hit while you try to restore your defenses. Sort of an armor based analogy to venting.

>>180817875
>>180817727
The point is that it's different, and honestly having to rotate your armor isn't any less of a link between offense and defense than having to lower your shields every so often. I ended up with the main weapons are hardpointed, so if you try to spread the damage you're not going to be shooting as much, just like if you try to soak all of the damage with shields you're not going to be shooting as much,

If you just try to point at the target and allahu akbar the front armor gets ripped off and the inside has much less armor and a weaker than average hull so it dies pretty fast.

I think you've really oversimplified it, it's like me saying "Starsector just boils down to keep shooting till you die, rotating omnishield to face enemy"

I don't have them set up to have infinite flux if that's what you're thinking, they have pretty small flux cap/dissipation, after some testing the destroyer more or less shoots a little longer than vanilla destroyers(with vanilla destroyers absorbing shots), so my little prototype destroyers is getting pounded the whole time, and then when the, say, Enforcer, has to lower its shields, some shots flood in before both have to disengage and vent

I'm actually moderately impressed with how well it works out, that's the only reason I decided to go ahead and do it

>>180817547
Thanks, man. I picked up those and a few of the minor utility ones like Combat Radar/Chatter.

Browsing the Faction ones, and I like the look of the ships from this: http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=3491.0

Is this one going to cause any sort of crazy as fuck problems and break balance or anything? If it is, then I'll avoid it, but desu I like the graphics.

>>180818634
Well it's your faction so do what you think will be better. Just keep in mind player agency when designing the system then. It's never a mistake to do so.

If you want to read a lengthier argument about those issues from a (now dead) mod:
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10055.msg175889#msg175889

>>180818705
Shadowyards is alright, it's not crazy at least. Some of the mods are fucking retarded though so be aware.

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>>180818705
The radar mod made me regularly crash on save (I have no fucking idea HOW, but it was definitely the culprit) without error message. It appears to be a bit of a unique problem, but if you get anything like that, try disabling it.

>Shadowyards
Pic related.
It's definitely one of the more balanced mods out there.

Consider Interstellar Imperium, Tyrador Safeguard Coalition and Metelson as well.
Although Tyrador's bombers can be a little gamebreaking if you choose to use them.

>>180818875
What mods make your personal "fucking retarded" list?

>>180819053
Not him but,
>Reds
Hideously overpowered (on purpose, but even as a boss faction they're fucking stupid)
>Dassault
I mean for starters, one of their cheaper frigates is basically a better tempest. Overpowered faction hull mod, overpowered weapons, etc. etc.
>Neutrino
Not fun to play against, since they have a permanently cloaking cruiser (that only stops once it starts degrading CR), has 9gag humor weapon names like HERP and DERP, and is generally, again, pretty fucking overpowered.

Of the overpowered mods, Templars does it well, but I'd beware using it with Nexelerin because they can become an immense nuisance once hostile toward you.

>>180819053
Templars and if I recall GKS and Dassault, I can't remember if GKS is as bad as I'm thinking though.

There are others, it's just 6:20 AM and I can't remember.

It's fine to install them all of course because who cares, some of them look nice(Templars don't though) and often times they're intentionally overpowered to make the game challenging

>>180819207
Do you have any .csv changes that can make them closer to balanced?
Please, csv only since i have no clue how to mess with the .jars

>>180819647
Manually rebalancing Dassault should be as simple as tweaking the faction hull mod. Although this doesn't quite affect the weapons.

But no, I never made an effort to try and rebalance other mods. I just play without the listed ones. Neutrino is hopeless and Reds would likely be a lot of work.

>>180819742
To which numbers though?
And how hopeless are we talking about? I thought Red was leagues beyond Neutrino on terms of overpoweredness but from your post it doesn't seem the case.
Keep in mind I've only played vanilla so i don't quite have a good expertise in the field of mods

>>180819939
Neutrino is just decently far ahead of the curve, Reds are fucking retarded.
You can probably salvage Reds with a numbers tweak, but they have a lot of ships, weapons, fighters, etc. so it'd be a ton of work. Neutrino is hopeless because the mod author seems to barely have any idea what they're doing and not care about testing their fucking shit.

Don't let me stop you from trying the mods out though. Grab the Console Commands mod, read through how to use it, and cheat yourself a fleet so you can see for yourself.

>>180820106
Wait, so Red is salvageable because i can alter the .csv but Neutrino isn't because the mod author doesn't know how to balance? Can't i alter Neutrino .csvs or is the cause of their unsalvageability in the .jars?

Keep in mind you are talking to a bona-fide almost-retard when it comes to this stuff

>>180820913
Nah the mod author is, aside from being too retarded to balance, doesn't seem to care to fix bugs.

Give the mod a try, if only to see how many times you can get your game to crash with Neutrino at fault.

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Where did i go wrong? I remember this worked last time i played in 7.2 (if its not apparent from the picture, the maxbattlesize in settings is 1000, but it can only be set to default 600 in game)

>>180821171
Dynasector changes the max battle size if you're using that.

>>180821040
Can this be fixed in the DL version or do you need the source code?

>>180821624
go to starsector/mods/[modname]/data/hulls/

open ship_data with a spreadsheet(open office or excel) and set it to read the line separations or whatever by commas

then you have rows of ship stats you can alter, but you'll have to have a little bit of a feel for the game to understand what your changes will really accomplish

>>180821824
I meant the bugs

>>180821453
Thanks m8, edited it in dynasector file and it works like charm now

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living and breathing

>>180825569
Speaking of flak, what mods other than SCY add small flak guns? I need specifically small ones on my Pandemonium, and the SCY ones don't look nice on it.

>>180722915
>[YouTube] An introduction to: Starsector (embed) [Embed]

>>180827043

prv has the punktskydd, but those are pale blue and might clash a bit on a red ship. great against missiles, a bit eh against fighters and torpedoes.

>>180789298
In the big fights where the enemy comes to you, It'd maybe be usable

75 deployment cost for 4 large slots & 4 fighter slots is probably wasteful though.

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Anyone tried this mod yet and can say if it's good?

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=12503.0

>>180828418
Yea I tried it
Seems to work fine, no crashes or whatever.

>>180828418
I've used it, it does crash on rare occasion. Crashed with due, but it's fixed, now I crash with brdy due to weapon names.

>>180828418
>xenoargh

no thank you

>>180829301
It was updated yesterday, you have used it since?

>>180794224
Sort of. It's rough around the edges and lacks content in general, but battles are really well-made. All I want now is armor angling.
>>180781997

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I plan to post forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand replies. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

I'm using 3x Tachyon Lance on Mimir, am I doing it wrong

>>180837618
I find autopulse lasers much better for burst energy dps.
Especially since if things get nasty you can just dash away.

>>180835991
a++

>>180829890
No, haven't seen the update till now. The crashes are rare and I fixed the crash by copying and renaming files.
>>180837618
Mimir has a weird range problem because it's large mounts are way in the back, I'd personally swap on a guardian pd and have shield bypass

>>180837618
>>180840304
The range on the Mimir is fine. With proper weapon group managing, you fire the Nidhoggr to pressure shields, vent, drift in, and then burst in order: Tachyon Lances, CAS Beams.

>shield bypass
>on a Mimir
What the fuck are you doing

>>180840304
>shield bypass on any shadowyards ship
absolutely not, their paper thin armor, speed, and quick flux venting means hit and run is your best attack plan, you go in shields up, guns blazing, and when your flux gets too high you back out and vent

>>180841046
Unless you're a Tartarus, in which case, between Siege Mode and 0.38 or whatever obscenely low number you can get on shields, combined with max flux vents and Flux Shunts, you just park yourself in the middle of combat and stay there.

>>180841184
yeah, thats the one exception. it's the anvil to the rest of the shadowyards fleet's hammer

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How the fuck do I arm a Scylla so that the AI actually fucking uses it correctly?
In fact, how the fuck do I get the AI to use phase ships properly in the first place?

>>180844089
You give them eliminate orders on ships that have broken away from the enemy fleet and are by themselves

>>180844179
>put Safety Overrides and Deva beams on it, basically nothing else but flux
>it still won't attack a fucking Diable carrier in simulation
What the actual fuck?

>>180844743
Do you have the eliminate order on it?

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>>180844918
Of coursh.
Turns out the AI is just a fucking pussy and wants range upgraded beams.
Do I just put the SCY SCPB on fucking everything? I've already got four on my Pando, I'm not sure I want to abuse this gun even more lmao

>>180845129
You could try putting a reckless captain on it then.
Upside would be anything that it gets an order for eliminate it will probably kill.
Downside is it will likely die if you don't control it with orders.

>>180845129
the simulator ai is set to coward by default

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>>180835991
Anon's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Board which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest chance of dubs.

>>180846036

for what reason

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>>180847089
FUCKING DOMAIN NIGGERS GET OUT OF MY SECTOR REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>180847280
Superior images and superior memes have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall posting strength. Well-trained, well-equipped Anons can stand up to many more times their lesser brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate.

>>180845129
>extreme modifications
Do you really use this?
Every time I've tried it I've been happy I could finally fit a useful loadout on my ship, but then instantly regret it as soon as I enter combat as my ship has turned into clown car where half the engines and weapons are not working at any given moment.

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>>180847280
Sir, the-- yes I know Sindria has been overrun, that's what I've been tr-- yes sir. This was the fifth fleet in a row with only five frigates that these autistic fuckers have thrown at our Onslaughts. It's been TWO WEEKS and we haven't even reached our destination, this siege isn't going anywhere, it's going to take months at this ra-- Sir? Sir are you absolutely posi--
Yes sir... Over and out.

>tfw trying to besiege Templars in nex
Why the fuck did I take this job...

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>>180848269
I AM THE HOLY

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>>180835991
>>180847089
>>180847496
Observe the Anon as he tends so carefully to the posting blooms; just the right bit from the humerous, then a swatch from the autistic. Follow the shitposter as they gather and organize the fallen memes. What higher order guides their work? Mark my words: someone or something is managing the ecology of this board.

>>180848012
>Combat 2, Damage Control 2 - +50% combat repairs
>Automated Repair Unit - +50% repairs
I mainly use it as an excuse to fit repair unit for the +50% CR restoration rate, especially on ships that cost shit loads to field. I wouldn't put it on something like an Onslaught.
With upgraded repairs, it's not that big of a deal. Plus, since this thing already chugs through flux like crazy, it doesn't really matter if weapons get disabled.
Engines being disabled is a lot more painful, but this thing is already slow as molasses and can teleport, so who cares?

You can put it on carriers too (and Unstable Injector) and not really notice it. Still, it's surprisingly balanced. Definitely not comfortable to play with, and extremely annoying on ships that rely on a built-in gun. Having it jam while charging it (see: Mimir, Adamas) is frustrating as hell.

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A-admiral! Your Dominus won't fit! It's too big for my Nevermore!
A-ah~

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>>180849053
YOUR NEVERMORE IS NO MATCH FOR MY SUPERIOR AVIONICS MISSILES
NOW FACE MY ULTIMATE CAPITAL, PANDEMONIUM!
WITH ITS POWER OF TELEPORTATION AND BALLISTIC WEAPONS I SHALL CRUSH ALL WHO STAND IN THE WAY OF THE DIABLE

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>>180849353
YOU SEE IVAN, WHEN YOU EQUIP FOUR STORM NEEDLERS LIKE THIS, YOU DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT FILTHY DIABLE SCUM. THIS NEEDLER FIRES OVER FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND NEEDLES PER SECOND.

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>>180848618
What do I care for your posting? Dubs, even trips, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the post and you shall become master of the meme.

>lone anon talking to himself
This is so cringy

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>>180849650
Oh, but what if your needlers could not get close enough to your target, "admiral"?
We have perfected the art of Siege warfare, with our glorious Solis cannons and sledge guns picking you away from afar, what needler can save you from out merciless assault?
IMPERIUM INVICTA, GLORY TO THE TRUE SUCCESSORS OF THE DOMAIN

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>spent 8 years sitting through shitty lectures and enduring simulator flights so I could qualify for capital ship duty
>finally got recruited just 2 months later
>board my shuttle, really excited
>ready to start my new job
>wait a minute, this isn't a Karkinos
>have to pilot a FUCKING Eschaton
>ship so understaffed, have to work overtime
>haven't slept properly in 3 weeks
>more like Eshiton
>not even allowed to take this thing into battle
>tfw BR_femaleofficer3 qt3.14 won't notice me
>realize I'll forever be a virgin
>mfw

>>180850257
How the fuck do the pathers manage to shitpost so much without implants?

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>>180849986
Already we have turned all of our critical posting, all of our image hosting, over to these...things...these lumps of ramen and pocky we call Mods. And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day to announce that they have no further need for us?

>>180850736

harmless; a self-aware mod would immediately autoterminate

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>>180850467
This is the police. You're under arrest for impersonating famous historical figures.

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>>180850736
Once an Anon has changed the relationship between himself and his board, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Posting, of necessity, involves a change in perspective.

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>>180851002
Please tell me that isn't a revenant text line I see.
Please tell me there isn't a revenant posting here.

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>>180851181
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
I ASSURE YOU SIR I IMPERSONATE NONE OTHER THAN MYSELF

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>>180851434
Wow, this virtual reality headgear sure is fancy. It's like I'm actually fighting the Imperium!

>make one post to bump the thread
>then this shit happens

>>180851959
Honestly anon this is the best thing to happen to the general since 8.0 came out.

>>180851959
I'd rather have portrait roleplaying than ethicalposting

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>>180852047

i do enjoy the vanilla SMAC portraits

>>180852181

well, obviously

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>>180851520
Excuse me young man but that isn't a VR headset, that is the latest in BRDY piloting technologies.
...are you saying you're NOT our acting admiral of this Knight-class cruiser?

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>>180850704
Hey faggot, everyone knows your cigs are a stupid affectation. Get nicotine directly injected into your bloodstream, so your mouth is free for sucking on robot dicks inside your mask.

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>>180852413
That would be me, Admiral Falcon! Now it's time for the pirate scum to show us their moves!

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>>180852519
But admiral, we're not fighting pirates, we're fighting Shadowyards.
Weren't you at the briefing?

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>>180852181
Fucking newfags! Back in my day we didn't even have to worry about ethics. We still had to load our ships' weapons with our OWN BARE HANDS, I tell ya. If you wanna talk about ethics, try taking down a Dominator in a Kite! Hah!
Nowdays every limp-dicked faggot kike-tach can buy himself a Paragon and go around believing he's Ludd himself.

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>>180852613
Tango whiskey delta niner, I think our Admiral is wasted again.

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>desperately clinging to life in a dysfunctional society ruled by crime lords and a jaded government
>try to take on jobs among passing spacers
>talk to a particularly interesting captain
>"what kind of skills do you have?"
>fake it till you make it
>he hired me!
>mfw made the captain of a Sidecar

>>180853274
Don't worry, the ejection pod SHOULD save you! Hopefully. Maybe. At least the first few times!

>>180797118
Raise / double your battle cap and run with capital ships.

Or just run with that ecm package thing that cut's the enemies in half if they're winning.

>>180856601
>Or just run with that ecm package thing that cut's the enemies in half if they're winning.
The modules that he is talking about IS the ECM package thing

>>180856601
>>180857138

ECCM is the one that cuts your penalty in half. much cheaper than running ECM on all your ships, and you get better missiles too.

just -10% range isn't too bad.

>>180857397
I'm PRETTY sure the ECCM one ONLY affects missiles

>>180857949

and i'm PRETTY SURE you're a gay retard

>Reduces the chance for missiles launched by the ship to be affected by electronic counter-measures and flares by %s. A CPU core adjunct in each missile also improves the tracking algorithm (if any) and effective engine performance.
>Reduces the weapon range reduction due to superior enemy Electronic Warfare by %s.
>public static final float EW_PENALTY_MULT = 0.5f; >stats.getDynamic().getStat(Stats.ELECTRONIC_WARFARE_PENALTY_MULT).modifyMult(id, EW_PENALTY_MULT);

>>180858195
I actually did not know that Anon, so thanks! I didn't expect Alex to add on to a missile only mod like that

>>180858195
Does that give the entire fleet half off the EW penalty or just the ship with the mod gets the half EW penalty?

>>180860201

just the ship

still a pretty good deal

>>180864436
What is that an image of

>>180864529
female vagina

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10992.0

does this really work?

>>180865867

dunno. try it and report back.

If I camp outside of a planet and blow up every ship that gets near it, would that affect its stability? Also, do trade convoys and smugglers actually have an effect on the economy, or are they just for show?

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Where do you buy decent ships that aren't civilian shuttles/logistic if you aren't commissioned?

Just store your fleet, make a fast personnel carrying fleet and go checking each inhabited system?

>>180867826

get a commission you disgusting neutral

>>180867826
Oh my, that's quite a lewd loli.
Independents only require relation for their military markets and carry ships from all factions.

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Shit, son

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>>180868107
>get a commission you disgusting neutral

First campaign playing and I don't know if I should or shouldn't get a commission.

What are the pros and cons of commissions?

>>180868114
>Independents only require relation for their military markets
Any fast way to suck it to the independents?

>>180868995

give them a bunch of ai cores

do a system bounty and kill a bunch of pirates

otherwise no

>>180847089
Is that professor markaroni from Alpha Centauri?

>>180868175
Where the hell are all those fighters coming from, because I don't see any carriers.

>>180851221
>>180850736
>>180849986
>>180848618
>>180847089
>>180835991
I KEEP SEEING ALPHA CENTAURI LEADERS PLEASE STOP

>>180869367
Cathedral can carry 4, and maybe there's a bunch of converted hangars here and there

>>180868995
You get access to that faction's military tech, plus a small bounty and reputation boost for every hostile ship you destroy. In return, their enemies become your enemies, and you won't be able to access those markets until tensions cool off. That can take up to a cycle or two.

where to find ai cores

>>180869435

you missed santiago

>The klaxon began to wail, but we felt the reassuring tingle of the Damper Field crackling to life around us, encasing the entire ship in its impenetrable glow.
>- Ensign Kel Dickerson, Inquiry on the loss of the SDS Zenith, c204

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totally not a tritachyon weapon bump

>>180864529
dragon dildo-class battlecruiser from shadowyards

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>>180868175
>12 fucking speed
>1M+ to restore
Would be worth it if I could actually slap SO on it

>>180872741
Well what did you expect from trying to restore a ship that's 50% more expensive than a paragon?

>>180872741
It's worth restoring. That's the closet you can get to a personal battlestation.

>>180865867
Nope.

>>180872741
you can't add SO to it as it is barred from caps

>>180876412
That's the point

>>180876981
if you remove the (cock)blocker code and you don't use SWP then you can use it on caps. it isn't as unethical as most would think

>>180877829

t. just enjoying his quad-plasma paragon

>>180879068
That works even without SO.
-Fire plasma
-Back off and activate Fort Shields
-Wait until soft flux is mostly gone
-Repeat

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daily reminder to crash your ships

>>180879994
>crash your ships
With either the reinforced bulkhead hullmod on them or officers with certain skills piloting them

The AI is retarded.

I order a heavy cruiser to go to intercept a light cruiser on the other direction and the my cruiser prefers to shoot at a frigate.

>>180869367
>>180869578
cathedral 4
albatros 2
and maybe some mods giving those other flak guys

>>180882269
I don't see an albatross in that picture.

>>180882438
You might be right

The AI always has a buncha converted hangers, I don't think its actually good

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How the fuck do you deal with a phase strike cruiser?

I lost 4 destroyers to just a single Doom-class.

>>180884652
Stick fighters on it, or get a bigger ship with decent turret coverage.
The AI will just waste its CR never coming out of phase becomes it might get hit by a flak cannon or something.

>>180884652

ion beams

>Remnant Station can instantly spawn infinite fleets
WHAT THE FUCK! It's literally spawning them on top of my fleet, as soon as i end the battle a new battle start instantly and eventually all the ships will run out of CR

>>180886232
But think of the AI cores anon.

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>RNG decides to fuck me over by not selling the weapons I want even as I look around the entire fucking sector
>If I do find one it's a single one and I need to look for more
>This is just to equip one single ship, God knows how it'd be if I bought ships in bulk

>>180884652
Carry an afflictor, it's special ability stuns any ship for about a second, turning off their shields, weapons, engines and will knock phase ships out of their cloak, giving you time to tear into their fragile bodies. It also has a very short cool down and not to mention the ship itself is a pretty strong.

As the other anons mentioned, sticking long range beam weapons or fighters on a phase ship will force the AI to leave it's cloak on and will eventually burn out their flux capacitor, giving you an opportunity to strike while they recuperate.

Also a lone Tempest is really good at this, as it is fast and can keep up with phase ships with it's graviton beam. They also have a terminator drone witch can overload most ship's systems pretty easily, even capital ships if you are lucky. Combined the Tempest can effectively harass then stun phase ships for you, if not outright killing smaller ones.

if you really want to fuck over a phase ship, bring a high-intensity laser

how does one use the excelsior its 2 heckin wacky 4 me

How many of you still use the default sector instead of a randomly generated one?

>>180892405
Every time I attempt to use Random it crashes.

>>180893919
Are you using Underworld? There's a fix for that in the last page of the thread on the forums.

Is there any mod that adds customization options to the random battle mission?

>>180892405
Yea massively improves performance, but some of the layouts are annoying

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>Remove officer level cap
>Skills still capped, now by the amount of space in the skill bar